Biography:Dr Robert G. Maunder has studied with the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK, since October 2000. He was awarded a first class honours BEng in Electronic Engineering in July 2003, as well as a PhD in Telecommunications and a lectureship in December 2007. Rob's research interests include joint source/channel coding, iterative decoding and coded modulation. He has published a number of IEEE papers in these areas.